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ATTORNEY UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

IVALTER T. GREEN, OF CLINTON, MISSOURI, ASSIGHOR, BY DIRECT ANI) MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO JACOB BOYER, OF SAME PLACE.

FOLDING BED.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 394,688, dated December 18, 1888.

Application tiled May 5, 1888. Serial No. 272,945. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom, it may conce/'71:

Be it known that I, WrALTER T. GREEN, of Clinton, in the county of Henry and State of Missouri, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Folding Beds, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to an improvement in folding beds, and has for its object to provide a bed of simple and economical construction, wherein the bedding will be contained within the bed when folded up, and wherein the body of the bed will be so light that the same may be readily manipulated by a child, if necessarv.

The invention consists in the construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar figures of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the bed partly folded out for use. Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal section through the same when fully extended, and Fig. 3 is a front elevation of the bed when closed.

In illustrating the bed I have shown the easing as representing a dressing-case; but I desire it understood that I do not confine myself to this particular forni of casing, as the same maybe made to represent other articles of furniture. The frame consists, primarily, of the sides 10, which are united at the top by aback piece, 11, and at the bottom by a cross-bar, 12, as best shown in Fig. 2. Upon the back board, 11, of the frame standards 13 are secured, preferably by means of an offset produced integral with the base of said standards, which oifset is screwed or otherwise detachably secured to the said back board, 11. A glass, 30, is supported between the standards 13.

The body of the bed is divided centrally into two sections, 14 and 15, which sections consist of the side boards, 16, end board, 17, and head-board 18, the said side boards being centrally divided and hinged at their upper faces, as best shown in Fig. 1. The bottom 19 of the section 14 of the body constitutes the front of the structure when the bed is folded up, in this ease being made to represent a ries of drawers. Upon the said bottom 15) and the lower edge of section 15 a longitudinal strip, 20, is attached to the inner face of each side board, the strips of the several sections being in the same plane. These strips are adapted to support a series of slats, 21,

extending transversely of the body, upon which slats the bedding is adapted to be supported. The foot-board 17is rigidly attached to the section l5, and the head-board 1S is hinged to the inner ends of the side boards of the front section, 14, as best shown in Fig. 2. The said head-board is made of asutlicient height to close the space between the bottom of the body and the under side of the back board, ll, when the bed is folded down. The head-board 18 is held in a fixed position through the medium of springs or cords 22, which springs or cords are attached at their upper ends to the upper surface of the headboard and at their lower ends to the side boards, as fully illustrated in Fig. :2. The body-section 1i is provided with pivoted legs 23, one leg being secured to inner surface of each side board near the foot-board of the bed, and the said legs are provided with a recess, 24, whereby they engage the upper surface of the foot-board and sustain the same. Ihen these legs are not in use, they are folded upward within the section 15 parallel with the side boards and in contact with the lower surfaces of the slats 2l. To the upper front surface of the back board, 11, a horizontal board, 25, is hinged, which board constitutes the top of the dressing-case when the bed is folded up, concealing the bedding, and is adapted to be lifted when the bed is to be unfolded. The body of the bed is hung in the frame through the medium of pivots 26, passing through the side boards of the frame a proper distance above the base and near the front edge, upon which pivots the section 14. of the body turns. To the front edge of the several side boards, 10, of the frame, at the base, doors 27 are hinged, which, when closed, as illustrated in Fig. 3, form the bottom of the dressing-case at the front. These doors are adapted to act in the capacity of a support for the section 14, and also for that portion of the section 15 con- To this end,

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when the bed is to be let down for use the said doors are carried outward parallel with the outer surfaces of the side boards, as best shown in Figs.1 and 2.

Thus in the manipulation of the bed, when it is desired to open the same, the cover-board 25 is lifted up against the standards 13, the doors 27 having `iirst been brought out in alignment with the side boards. The two sections 14 and 15, which are folded one upon the other, are carried downward until the section 14 rests upon the extended doors 27. The upper section is then grasped by one of the slats 21 and lifted from orf the section 14 and carried downward to a horizontal position aligning the inner section. As the scction is thus carried downward, the legs 23 assume a vertical posi tion to support the saine. The bed is now ready for use, the head-board 18 having been brought up to a position essentially in alignment with the bark board, 1l, of the traine.

To fold the bed, the section carried over upon the section 1:4., as shown in Fig. 1, the covers and bedding being bent over upon themselves and held between the slats of the several sections. The cover-board 25 is now elevated and the two sections carried upward to a vertical 'position Within the frame upon the pivot 26. Vhen so carried upward, the head-board 18 passes downward to form the bottom of the structure. The folding doors 27 may then be carried back to their normal position.

The dressing-case, or whatever article of furniture the bed is designed to represent, is mounted upon suitable rollers, Vwhereby it may be conveniently moved about the room.

Having thus fully described iny invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patentm The combination, with the frame having side boards united at top and bottoni, the two outward-swinging doors 27, hinged at their outer ends to the sides, and the hinged coverboard 25, hinged to the back at the upper ends of the sides, of the hinged sections 14 15, having the slats and panels 19, the said doors 27, when the bed is in position for use, projecting beyond the joint of the bed-sections to support the side bars of both sections, substantially as set forth.

lV ALTER T. GREEN. hlitnesses:

C. F. "COLLINS, MILES W. WILMoTT. 

